Browsing by Department "Economics"
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(2018-06-15)Department: EconomicsTrade reform is an important policy tool as it: governs access to foreign markets and the organization of global supply chains; influences international trade flows; and has implications for consumer welfare in a given ...
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(2020-07-24)Department: EconomicsIn Chapter 1, I exploit the identification power in a series of bank marketable securities to estimate a DSGE model with a novel investment and debt trade-off. The model is rich enough to distinguish bank induced recessions ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three chapters that explore business cycles and price dynamics. The first chapter examines the economics of stay-at-home orders during the advent of the Covid-19 outbreak. Using an event study ...
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(2010-06-04)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three different projects concerning three different aspects of measuring social welfare and poverty, when the measurement is based on more than one attribute or dimension of well-being. The ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: EconomicsIn this dissertation I use modern microeconomic methods to examine the impact of K-12 education policy interventions on student outcomes. In the first chapter I explore how increased funding for school policing and sentiment ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: EconomicsIn this dissertation, I analyze the effects of expanding access to financial markets and securities during the early twentieth century and study how the expansion was affected by the Great Depression. The mechanisms for ...
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(2015-03-30)Department: EconomicsTitle lending, in which a borrower uses his car title as collateral for a short-term, high-interest loan, is a growing part of the alternative financial market. These loans provide credit to a group of American who are not ...
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(2016-07-05)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation contains 3 essays that analyze different aspects of corporate taxation. The first essay studies optimal corporate taxes using an enhanced version of the Melitz trade model that contains heterogeneous ...
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(2016-04-09)Department: EconomicsIn my dissertation, I develop new methods to understand the distributional effect of participating in a program or experiencing a treatment. This goal is different from most research in economics which either (i) restricts ...
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(2009-04-08)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay studies the problem of optimal law enforcement when individuals violating the law generate positive externalities for other violators. These externalities ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: EconomicsThe first dissertation essay, “Feeling Blue and Seeing Red from Yellow Dust: The Effect of Air Pollution on Adolescent Mental Health” investigates the causal effect of air pollution on Korean adolescent mental health. Less ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: EconomicsUnder the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. banking system simultaneously experienced immense growth and also severe financial instability stemming from nationwide banking panics. This dissertation explores ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies the relationships among financial development, financial integration and growth. Chapter One motivates the dissertation by discussing the importance of financial market development and financial ...
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(2021-04-27)Department: EconomicsWhile standard trade models are built on static settings with stable aggregate environment, data show that firms exit and enter international markets over time, suggesting that these decisions are dynamic in nature. The ...
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(2013-07-03)Department: EconomicsFirm-level market entry decisions and post-entry growth are at the core of the industrial organization literature. This dissertation investigates the impact of demand side factors on firm-level market entry, subsequent ...
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(2016-04-19)Department: EconomicsAt least half of personal health spending in the U.S. is related to behavior, lifestyle or other avoidable causes. This dissertation contributes to a recent growing literature which aims to understand what affects health ...
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(2022-06-22)Department: EconomicsMacroeconomic shocks significantly impact inequality because households react differently depending on their wealth, income, and occupation. These heterogeneous responses influence macroeconomic outcomes because they feed ...
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(2023-07-20)Department: EconomicsStructural vector autoregressive models are one of the most widely applied tools in empirical macroeconomic research, and impulse responses are often employed in these models to evaluate the effect of economic shocks on ...
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(2008-07-31)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation is an economic analysis of the legal aspects of international trade institutions. In particular, I analyze the system of remedies, the role of a court for international trade disputes, and settlement ...
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(2016-07-13)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies intellectual property and product standards policies in the global economy. The first chapter evaluates the case for national treatment (NT) as specified in the clause of the World Trade Organization. ...